Purchases

Today, we had to check out by 10, so we spent the rest of the day in the car making some souvenir purchases. But before we did that, we attempted to stroll out to another island.

The problem with this idea was that the current was very strong and impeded our forward movement. We decided not to go all the way and save our leg muscles . . . this time.

After drying off and checking out, we headed out and Nicole got a black pearl for a necklace and I eventually ended up getting that eight string ukulele. I went to another place that made custom ukuleles, but it didn't have the same atmosphere as driving down a dirt road to a guy's house, where he makes them in his backyard, so I went back to the guy from yesterday. I ended up choosing one with a sort of tribal design engraved in it. He said that was the first one he sold of that design.

Now we wait in the Rarotonga airport for our flight to Aitutaki. Here's a look at the new uke (in bubble wrap) behind my extra fancy boarding pass. We didn't even have to go through security!